I'm replaying Unreal, using Kentie's Direct3D 10 renderer, which seems nice. According to its feature list, it's supposed to support S3TC textures, such as the S3TC Stock Unreal Textures Extreme End sets, but the option doesn't turn up in advanced settings - and it doesn't help to add the line manually to the ini either.

Anyone who knows if it's possible to use them together - or if there are alternatives for rendering and/or HD textures?

The latter might not matter so much because the game actually looks rather good, but I'd like to be able to check out texture replacers if nothing else.

so it's actually been a while since i messed with unreal... turns out I already had a dx10 driver in there, but selecting it in the advanced settings results in an error... i'm not even sure, maybe this is the UT engine?? gods below, i can't remember it's been so long.

+1 for the 227 patch. Ok it means you can now play the game on a modern computer, but also, it has a mutator for the single player game that restores the original weapon sounds.

Remember how at some point Epic "patched" the game to change the weapon sounds into these obnoxious overly loud atrocities that drowned out everything else in the game?

Well now you can play all those wonderful hours of obscure "Oh god what did that button do? Should I press it again?" level design from the 90s, but now with the proper, atmospheric sounds that you remember from the good old days, lovingly restored, and it is very cool.

Unreal was pretty ambient and chillax, with all the game's sounds perfectly balanced. UT was exxxtreeeme m-m-m-monster-kill excess, with loud bombastic weapon sounds.

Putting the UT weapon sounds into Unreal was an artistic misfire on a par with those terrible quake mods that add all those weird "updated" weapon noises no doubt sampled at 256-bit, 12 million kHz or whatever the fuck.

The general feeling here is that the original Unreal weapons lacked any real bass or impact. And they didn't. Most of them sounded like a very polite vacuum cleaner.

So replacing the sounds was an attempt to rectify that.

Thing is, the weapons were very weak and enemies always took tons of hits before they went down, so having massive booms rattling your speakers continuously as you slowly chip away at Skaarj Number 2853 gets old very quickly.

Note: I DO have the original game somewhere, but the current install is from a torrent, so it's the compressed vanilla textures in the screenshot rather than the uncompressed ones that also come with the game IIRC. So they might look better - can't say.

Yes there is. Press TAB to get the command line up and type in "preferences" and it will bring up an advanced menu where you can make all kinds of tweaks. Here you should be able to disable filtering on textures (amongst a shit load of other things).